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IN THE EDIBLE GARDEN Plant spinach as soon as soil can be worked. Plant smooth-leaf varieties rather than Savoy types (with crinkled leaves). Leaves of Savoy varieties catch soil during rainstorms and can taste gritty. (A University of Illinois Extension fact sheet is available; see below). Plant potatoes from mid-March through mid-April. Late varieties can be planted on top of the ground in straw (fact sheet available). Start seeds for eggplants, tomatoes and peppers late in the month.

Here are tasks to tackle in and around the garden all year: MAY Plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and vine crops after May 15. Water vegetable transplants with a starter fertilizer, which is high in phosphorus, to promote root development. Prune early spring-flowering trees and shrubs. Plant tender bulbs, such as gladioli, dahlias and caladium, after May 15. Remove the flower stems on rhododendrons after flowering. Not doing this will reduce flowering next year.

Oct 4 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday the social media company reached the 1 billion active monthly users threshold last month. At the end of June, Facebook had 955 million active monthly users. Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, hit the milestone on Sept. 14 at 12:45 p.m. Pacific time, the company said in a fact sheet on its website.

ROME, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry plans to announce on Thursday that the United States will give an additional $100 million in humanitarian aid for those affected by the Syrian civil war. According to a U.S. State Department fact sheet, this would bring the total U.S. contribution for humanitarian assistance to $510 million for those suffering from the violence inside the country as well as those who have fled...

Your heating boiler can function properly for 30 or 40 years or more, but if your old one is now on its way out, you should get the facts about the new ones. And in this, the government is on your side, reports the Better Heating- Cooling Council. The Federal Trade Commission requires that the installer must show you a "fact sheet" upon request, itemizing the Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency and how the model he recommends measures up with other brands of the same size. Efficiency is not the only measure of good boiler quality, as your contractor can explain, but you do want assurance that the new one will use less fuel than the old conversion type.